Assessment 1

Instructions

Assessment 1 will be available on Gradescope on Friday, 12PM pacific time here.

A version with extra time, for students with OAE-approved exam extensions only, is available here.

Answers should be concise, with no more than 100 words per question. We are not going to count words, but if your answer feels way longer than 100 words, we reserve the right to grade only the first 100 words.

You may take this assessment in any 3-hour window as long as you finish before Monday, 7/12 at 12PM PT. CAs will be monitoring Ed for assessment questions during the following times, and will aim to answer questions within 10 minutes:

Note that while you are taking the assessment, you may only ask clarifying questions about the assessment itself, not about course material. (We may enforce this using timestamps from Gradescope and Ed.) You’re welcome to take the assessment outside of these on-call hours, but we may have a longer response time. Hopefully, if we have written the assessment well, you won’t have any questions :)

If you have conceptual questions before starting the assessment, you’re welcome to ask on Ed as a private question at any time, but we may not respond with the same urgency as assessment clarification questions.

One last thing: Take a deep breath! You can do this! This assessment is really not supposed to be a big, stressful thing. It’s a small part of your grade and is graded on a square-root curve, so that a 100% stays a 100%, 81% becomes 90%, 64% becomes 80%, and so on. You will do great!!

The Honor Code

The Honor Code policies are a critical part of the assessments (see the general information handout on the main course homepage) and we expect you to uphold your obligations as for any other coursework.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of what resources are permitted and not:

Permitted

Not Permitted